Interference Patternwas founded in 2008 and continues to produce high-end animation and VFX for commercials, broadcast, and film and here is a selection of what we’ve been up to recently…

Recent Projects

Overview: Creating seamless photorealistic virtual environments and set extensions for two 30 second TV commercials is right up our street, and this opportunity to flex our cgi muscles was one that we were not going to miss. Working with agency STV Creative for client Digby Brown solicitors, we carefully crafted two separate scenarios, one depicting a car crash and another a workplace accident. From on-set visual effects supervision through to the creation and integration of the virtual cgi environments, seamless digital set extensions and touch-up, this was a project that we loved working on.

Case Study: If you would like to get the inside story of how we did it, check out the case study, which will lead you through our production process, from initial mock-ups through to final delivery.

Overview: We produced a series of animated motion graphicsto demonstrate how alcohol affects both your short and long term health supporting the campaign to ‘drink a little less and making a big difference to you’.

We launched high end asset production studio ipBuildlast year, as a sister service toInterference Pattern (founded in 2008). At ipBuild we produce and co-ordinate fully textured 3d asset builds for commercials, broadcast, film and game sectors. We assist with the initial concept design stages, right through to delivering the final production-ready assets for use in the client’s production pipeline. Discover a couple of our recentipBuild projects:

Overview: For the latest funny animation summer outing for the Anchor family we created the play arena and warehouse environment in which the action takes place. Capturing the feel of a miniature hand-crafted physical model was the aim with this asset build, resulting in the inclusion of small details such as smears, blobs of glue and small irregularities which help to sell the idea.

Nothing to declare – An animated horror where the end of the world could start next door.

All the character design has been created by Vincent and it’s been a pleasure and challenge to create 3D sculpts of his 2D designs. Vincent has also had a great influence on the interior design and layout of the film, working alongside Fraser MacLean.

Interference Pattern is undertaking the entirety of the 3d asset build, 3d visual style development, alongside the shading, lighting, effects, rendering and finally compositing for the full film.

The official roles are: Writer: Vincent Deighan; Director: Will Adams; Producer: Mal Young; Technical Director: Tom Bryant. We’re also happy to be working alongside John Cummings (recently from the band Mogwai) who was involved in writing the music for the french thriller The Return (Les Revenants) and are excited to see how his music works with our visualisation of the film.

Congratulations to the five other 2016 SFTN commissions, and to Siri Rodnes for Grimm Street a 2015 SFTN commission which became an official selection for EIFF and for which we were proud to undertake some VFX work.

Ryan Kingsleigh Sculpture workshop

Whilst in California, Jayne took part in a 2 day character sculpting workshop with uber talented Mike Defeo and Ryan Kingslein in Laguna Bay, in Ryan’s new studio.

IP Team on Tour – CTN Animation Expo

Two of the IP team were at the 2015 CTN animation expo last year, and were delighted to share this experience with ten other Scottish delegates, all superbly organised by Fraser MacLean . The trip included tours to LA animation studios Titmouse, Dreamworks and Sony Pictures.

See animator Denis Mallon’s round-up of our trip on the Creative Edinburgh blog. The experience was an intense learning curve and incredible to spend time with veteran animation talents, including Peter Lord.

Annecy Animation Festival

IP producer Matt Brown attended the 2016 Annecy Animation Festival, immersing himself in world of animation from dawn-until-dusk, managing to drop by the occasional after-party during his week.

Mentoring

The rest of the team have also been on the road throughout the year helping out students. Steve Bell our Senior 3d Artist and Asset Lead graduate portfolio review day at Duncan of Jordanstone for animation students just having graduated.

Student work experience

Competition Winner

We have had a very talented Edinburgh College animation students and competition winners join us for work experience and mentoring from a couple of days up to a year, most recently Angela who kindly shared her positive experiences.

Community Events

Interference Pattern is proud to be leading a collective of animators that are curating an animation community event for next year’s calendar, keep an eye on our twitter account for updates. Also follow what Animation Centrifuge are up to next, kudos and congratulations to them on their inaugural bootcamp and workshops successes so far.